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Ki She’d pulled her hair into a hairband and changed her clothes She went froile schoolmarm to international spy, covered in black from head to toe

I raised ain, but when she sat down, a wave of dizziness overtook hout my body, and I realized I hadn’t eaten since lunch several hours earlier My blood sugar was dropping fast Maybe I’d force Reyes to cook ain, if he knehat I was planning, he ht poison it for real

Poison

I blinked down atover my hand and onto the carpet Then Kim’s arms were around me She pulled me onto the couch, laid me across it the best she could I still felt crooked as she looked down at me

"I’m so sorry, Charley There’s one left" Her brows knitted in thought "And this one will be tricky"

"You… you drugged me?"

"There’s just one left and then this will all be over I’ve arranged everything The money is in Reyes’s name If he wants to pay back the insurance companies, fine That will be up to hi my cheek

I blinked back to her

"All the papers are in my desk in the kitchen And here is a note for Reyes" She held up a note It blurred acrossit," she said, stuffing it into the pocket of my jeans "Please, just tell him I’ve loved hi

"And, and tell hirinned "Tell him I’ll see him on the flip side"

Her voice blurred, too, and faded as I fell into a warue’s refusal to work right

"I know you’re upset, Charley, but that’s no reason to call me names"

"No, lou lon lullerland" What the hell did I just say?

"What the hell did you just say?"

It sounded like You don’t understand when I thought it in ht harder "Le larson" Wonderful, noas French "The The arson… ist"

"The arsonist?" he asked, suddenly very interested in what I had to say

Sadly, "Lelally," hat he got No idea I sed and stu one foot in front of the other and trying to talk at the sae The cool air seemed to help I shook my head "The arsonist I want to make a leal A deal Only, I don’t have a lot of ti to ruinis about to go up in lames Just alert the flyer department," I said "I’ll try to find the arsonist before lat happens"

"Who, Charley?" he asked, his voice hard, brooking no arguain, I could brook with a fence post "I’llI pro will be explained"

"Telland abetting"